Culture, Ethnicity, and Acculturation

MULTICULTURAL PATIENT EDUCATION, ILLITERACY, AND EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
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Multicultural Patient Education, Illiteracy, and Effective Communication
Over the years, the definition of culture has become subjective to the point that it somehow is a universally recognized and understood concept without the need for a strict formal definition. Because there are so many cultures in the world and because the world has become more contemporary, different beliefs, versions, and cultural modifications have blurred the definition of culture itself. Some definitions are even contradicting. However, one prominent definition of culture is the congregation of different elements that symbolize humanity, from artifacts, spirituality, language, literature, art, science, social processes, and psychological processes (Mironenko & Sorokin, 2018). It is, in essence, how we live as a collective based on what is in common with certain groups of people. On the other hand, according to Kumar et al. (2020), ethnicity is “determined based on a person‟s national, regional, and cultural group.” Maehler et al. (2019) define acculturation as the process where people from different cultures interact with people from ano...